From their press release, issued yesterday: Atrium Hospitality, the hotel and assessment for the Holiday Inn Sacramento, is notifying three hundred and seventy-six (376) hotel guests of an event that could potentially impact the security of certain information. Although we are unaware of any actual or attempted misuse of the information, Atrium Hospitality is providing…
Category: Business Sector
H-E Parts Morgan hacked – TheDarkOverlord
In July, 2013, H-E Parts International, a manufacturer of aftermarket parts and components for the mining industry, acquired The Morgan Group. Morgan already had an established reputation for servicing the mining, oil, and gas industries. Together, H-E Parts International Morgan grew as a global corporation with offices in Canada, Chile, Australia, China, Peru, and throughout the United States….
Citing “irreparable damage,” Panama Papers law firm Mossack Fonseca will close
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes a breach does sound a death knell for a firm. Cat Rutter Pooley and Barney Thompson report: Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers scandal, will close at the end of March, according to a statement from the firm obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative…
Svitzer employee details stolen in data breach affecting almost half of its Australian employees
Ariel Bogle reports: The shipping company Svitzer has suffered a significant data breach affecting almost half its Australian employees. It is among the first incidents to be disclosed under Australia’s new notifiable data breaches scheme. For almost 11 months, emails from three Australian employee email accounts were secretly auto-forwarded outside the company. The perpetrator has…
Walmart jewelry partner exposed 1.3 million customer details
Bob Diachenko writes: On February 6th, 2018 researchers at Kromtech security came across another publicly accessible Amazon s3 bucket. This one contained a MSSQL database backup, which was found to hold the personal information, including names, addresses, zip codes, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, ip addresses, and, most shockingly, plain text passwords, for shopping accounts of over…
MO: Olathe restaurant owner accused of identity theft
KSHB in Kansas City reports: An Olathe barbecue restaurant owner is facing accusations of credit card fraud. Mathew Sander is facing 19 different charges in three separate cases. Sander owns Smokin’ Joe’s BBQ. Read more on KSHB.